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FOLDING BED.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 29. 1911.

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, CHARLES E. IIVJIM, F DETROIR MICHIGAN.

FOLDING BED.

Application filed December 29, 1917.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that T, CHARLES F. TMM, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne 5 and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fold ing Beds, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. r This invention relates to a folding bed,

and has special reference to a piece of furniture as a bench, settee, or oblong seating structure that may be easily and quickly converted into a couch or single or double bed. The primary object of my invention is to provide an oblong seating structure in which may be practically housed or concealed frames and supports, which when in ex tended positions will cooperate with the structure in providing a bedframe that may be safely used.

A further object of my invention is to pro vide a convertible piece of furniture of the above character that is susceptible to any desired upholstery finish, and wherein the parts are constructed with a view of being easily assembled and readily manipulated.

Reference will now be had .to the draw ings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of the piece of furniture showing parts thereof extended to provide a bed structure;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of the piece of furniture with parts thereof folded;

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of the piece of furniture taken on the line IV-TV of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a View similar to Fig. 3 showing parts of the piece of furniture as being swung to open or extended positions;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modified form of hinge;

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the framework of a piece of furniture, showing parts thereof extended to provide a bed frame,

a bottom Wall or panel a of the frame 1,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 30, rate.

Serial No. 209,451.

and a front wall 5, said front wall being ap proximately half the depth of the end frames 2 or the rear wall 3, with the upper edge thereof beveled, as at 6.

Mounted in the confronting faces of the end frames 2 adjacent the upper and front edges thereof, are inwardly projecting hinged pintles 7 and these pintles are provided with strapped hinges 8. Connected to said hinges is an inner frame 9 and an intermediate frame 10. The inner frame 9, when in an inactive position, rests upon stops 11 carried by the end frames 2, and when said inner frame is in active position, said frame engages a bar 12 connecting the end frames 2 at the upper edge of the rear wall 3. The inner frame 9 has the side arms thereof recessed or cut away, as at 13, to provide clearance for legs. 1 f forming part of an outer frame 15 hingedly connected to the intermediate frame 10, as at 16.

The inner frame 9 has a pivoted head piece 17 movable with said inner frame and normally supported thereby, but said pivoted head piece may be raised so that easy access may be had to the lower part or contents of the boxlike structure.

The confronting hinged ends of the inner and intermediate frames 9 and 10 are beveled, as at 18, so that the intermediate frame 10 may contact with the inner frame 9 and cause said inner frame to be elevated into a plane with the intermediate frame 10, when said intermediate frame is extended.

Pivotally connected to the hinged end of the intermediate frame 10, by straps 19, is an auxiliary front wall 20 having the lower edge thereof beveled so as to rest upon the upper edge of the front wall 5 and complete the front wall of the boxlike structure, when the intermediate and outer frames 10 and 15 are folded therein. The auxiliary wall 20 is automatically brought into position on the front wall 5 and to prevent out ward displacement of the auxiliary front wall 20 relatively to the fixed front wall 5, the upper edge of the wall 5 has a strip 21. The side arms of the intermediate frame 10 are provided with outwardly projecting studs 22 and these studs are adapted to be engaged by pivoted gravity links 23 carried by the outer frame 15 such engagement tak ing place when the outer frame is folded on to the intermediate frame, and then said frames are held together so that they may be bodily swung into the boxlike structure, with the legs 14 of the Outer frame 15 extending downwardly in the recesses or cut away portions 13 of the inner frame.

lhe intermediate frame 10 has the side arms thereof provided with lateral flanges 24c, and as best shown in Fig. 4, these lateral flanges are adapted to overlie the upper ends of the end frames .2 when the inter mediate frame 10 is folded, thus supporting the intermediate frame in the boXlike structure.

On the free edge of the outer frame 15, there is a hinged extension 25 and this hinged extension is adapted to cooperate with the frames 9, 10 and 15 in supporting a spring, mattress, cushion or other yieldable body, which may be detachable relatively to the frames in order that it may be folded and placed in the lower part of the box structure. The frames 9, 10 and 15, particularly the frame 15, are susceptible to any desired upholstery and this is par icularly true of the bozelike structure so that the entire structure will represent a piece of furniture, for

instance as shown in Fig. 8.

In order that the frames 10 and 15 may be compactly assembled within the boxlike structure, it is preferable that the upper edges of the side arms of the frame 9 be beveled or tapered to receive similarly shaped side arms of the frame 15, as best shown in Fig. 3, where it will be observed that the frame 15 rests upon the frame 9, while the frame 10 is supported by the lateral flanges 24 engaging on the end frames of the boXlike structure.

In Fig. 6, a modified form of hinge 26 is shown that may be used in lieu of the strap hinges 8, and while in the drawings there 1 are illustrated the preferred embodiments of ner and intermediate frames carried by said boXlike structure above the front wall thereof with said inner frame normally in said boxlike structure and said intermediate frame adapted to be swung therein to form the top of said boxlike structure, an auxiliary front. wall carried by the intermediate frame and adapted to be raised on to the front wall of said boxlike structure .to complete said wall, an outer frame connected to said intermediate frame and adapted to be folded thereon to occupy a position between said inner and intermediate frames in said boxlike structure, and legs carried by said outer frame.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' CHARLES F. IMM. Witnesses LEwIs E. FLANnnns. ANNA M. Donn.

Copies of this patent may vbe obtain ed forfive cents each, ,by addressing the Commissioner of ratents,

Washington, 1). G. 

